Patents by Inventor NORIAKI TAKASUGI

NORIAKI TAKASUGI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11975448
    Abstract: There is provided a control device including a control unit configured to control an operation offset that indicates a difference between a control reference point for a slave unit and a control reference point for a master unit on the basis of operation magnification indicating a ratio of a movement amount of the master unit to a movement amount of the slave unit, in which the control unit controls the operation offset for two pairs of master unit and slave unit according to a change in the operation magnification in a case where a designated position of a first pair of master unit and a slave unit of the two pairs of master units and the slave units is kept constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Itotani, Hiromasa Masuda, Noriaki Takasugi
  • Publication number: 20240126303
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) includes a calculation unit (113) that calculates an amount of change in a landing point of a landing point position to which a current swing leg of a robotic apparatus (1) including one or more legs to land next from a planned landing point position, and an amount of change in the center of pressure of a position of the center of pressure to be generated by a current ground contact leg of the robotic apparatus (1) from a position of a target center of pressure, and a drive control unit (114) that controls an attitude and movement of the robotic apparatus (1), based on at least one of the amount of change in the landing point or the amount of change in the center of pressure, calculated by the calculation unit (113).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: MASAYA KINOSHITA, KENICHIRO NAGASAKA, NORIAKI TAKASUGI
  • Publication number: 20240058943
    Abstract: Traveling according to a predefined target speed with each leg of a leg wheel robot grounded in a movement range corresponding to each leg can be performed even on a travel surface such as stairs. Travel surface information of the leg wheel robot that travels while alternately switching a grounding period in which traveling is performed with the wheels at the leg tips grounded to the travel surface and a free leg period in which the wheels at the leg tips are separated from the travel surface is acquired, a movement range corresponding to each leg in which the legs of the leg wheel robot can travel while being grounded to the travel surface is calculated, and track information of the legs for causing the leg wheel robot to travel with each leg grounded to the movement range corresponding to each leg according to a predefined target speed is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: NORIAKI TAKASUGI, MASAYA KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240061436
    Abstract: Traveling surface shape data of only a selection region selected on the basis of target foot placement information of a moving apparatus and a search range region is generated and a foot placement position and the like of the moving apparatus are determined, so that the processing load is reduced and high-speed processing is enabled. A data processing unit that analyzes detection information of a visual sensor and determines a movement route of the moving apparatus is provided, and the data processing unit generates traveling surface shape data such as three-dimensional point cloud data that enables analysis of a shape of a traveling surface of the moving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: RYOICHI TSUZAKI, NORIAKI TAKASUGI, TOSHIMITSU KAI
  • Publication number: 20230018155
    Abstract: A legged robot according to the present disclosure includes: a trunk; a plurality of legs provided on the trunk; and a changing section that changes a target ground-contact time of each of the legs, on the basis of target gait information, self-state information, and environment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: NORIAKI TAKASUGI
  • Publication number: 20220274261
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a robot capable of estimate a value outside a detection range of a sensor. A control device of a first aspect of the present technology is a device that acquires detection results of a sensor unit composed of a plurality of sensors including a first sensor having a predetermined detection range, and a second sensor having a range in a detection range thereof in which detection by the first sensor is not possible and estimates a detected value of the first sensor outside the predetermined detection range on the basis of detection results of the second sensor. The present technology can be applied to a device that controls a robot having a hand part capable of gripping an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Alexandre CONUS, Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Noriaki TAKASUGI, Yasunori KAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20220161414
    Abstract: There is provided a control device including a control unit configured to control an operation offset that indicates a difference between a control reference point for a slave unit and a control reference point for a master unit on the basis of operation magnification indicating a ratio of a movement amount of the master unit to a movement amount of the slave unit, in which the control unit controls the operation offset for two pairs of master unit and slave unit according to a change in the operation magnification in a case where a designated position of a first pair of master unit and a slave unit of the two pairs of master units and the slave units is kept constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: YUKI ITOTANI, HIROMASA MASUDA, NORIAKI TAKASUGI
  • Publication number: 20220106001
    Abstract: There is achieved a traveling robot configured to travel by switching between leg driving and wheel driving while suppressing a decrease in velocity in switching between the leg driving and the wheel driving. The traveling robot includes a drive unit, a clutch configured to switch a transmission destination of a driving force from the drive unit, a leg and a wheel that are configured to be driven by the driving force from the drive unit, and a control unit. The control unit executes, in drive switching between leg driving and wheel driving, travel velocity control before the drive switching such that a travel velocity after the drive switching is substantially equal to a travel velocity before the drive switching. The control unit sets, in the drive switching between the leg driving and the wheel driving, a sliding movement state in which the wheel is caused to slide in a non-driven state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: NORIAKI TAKASUGI, WATARU KOKUBO, MASAYA KINOSHITA, YASUNORI KAWANAMI